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ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
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Rick James: Cold Blooded (Motown)

Barney Hoskyns,
New Musical Express,
August 1983

IN THE freak funk stakes, high-livin devil-may-care Rick James rates as a bit of a clown. As youll know if you caught his Rockpalast TV gig, the man is formidably uncool, and wont think twice about dragging Mary Jane to 11 hippie-ish minutes if itll make a bunch of Krauts chortle a little longer.

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